A round-up of Taiwan’s technology, startup and venture capital news items from January, February and March, Q1 2022
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- Quarterly collection for January, February and March 2022
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January 2022 | February 2022 | March 2022
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Taiwan tech: March 2022
- Taiwan: Foxconn to manufacture battery packs and cells at new facilities in southern Taiwan in move to secure a key position in the booming electric vehicle industry
- Taiwan: An intro to Memorence AI, focused on digitizing and automating manual processes, selected for 2021 Qualcomm Taiwan Innovation Challenge
- Taiwan: Cooby raises $2.9M led by Sequoia India’s Surge with WhatsApp-focused sales messaging and conversation management
- Taiwan: An intro to Micro PC, early-stage startup working on removing micro-plastics from the world’s oceans
- Taiwan: Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store preps to launch, a partnership between Blocto blockchain infrastructure and crypto wallet provider and Yahoo Taiwan
- Taiwan’s Far EasTone comm’s services provider joins Ericsson Startup 5G program, looking to boost commercialization and monetization of 5G
- Taiwan: MaiCoin, country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, completes funding at $400M valuation, with sights reportedly on NASDAQ IPO
Taiwan tech: February 2022
- Taiwan to introduce tougher laws to protect the semiconductor industry from industrial espionage
- Taiwan enters second phase of retail central bank digital currency research, expecting to complete prototype trials by September this year
- Taiwan: An intro to Avilon Intelligence, remote drones operation and management startup that took 3rd place in the Qualcomm Taiwan Innovation Challenge
- Taiwan’s Acer to invest in Starbit Innovation blockchain startup in bid to position as a leader in the NFT space
- Taiwan: Startup Terrace and SOSA to launching IP² Scale Out Program to provide 7 Taiwanese startups with tools to boost international expansion goals
- Indonesia: Taiwan’s Foxconn to build electric car components, batteries, motors, in Batang; and to relocate telecoms spare part manufacturing from China
- Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp to invest $5BN in new Singapore semiconductor factory with production expected in 2024, focusing on 5G and auto electronics
Taiwan tech: January 2022
- Taiwan: In case you missed it, an intro to the 9 startups selected to be Taiwan’s startup ambassadors overseas as part of the Startup Island Taiwan NEXT BIG project
- An overview of how Mobility-as-a-Service – MaaS – could work in Taiwan as public transit systems struggle to recover beyond 80% of pre-pandemic ridership
- Taiwan unveils plans for $1BN joint projects fund between Lithuanian and Taiwanese companies, a week after pledging a $200M fund to invest in Lithuania
- Taiwan: PopChill sustainable e-commerce marketplace gains $2.2M Pre-Series A funding with second-hand fashion focus
- Taiwan’s Gogoro and EV batteries: “…our system is really like a vending machine that goes into different locations based on where the consumer goes and where the consumer needs energy.”
- A look at Taipei’s cloud kitchen market: ““We operate our own kitchens, and we create our own brands…”
- 2021 Taiwan Startup Ecosystem Survey findings now available to download from PwC Taiwan
- Taiwan’s Foxconn iPhone components maker partners Indonesia’s Investment Ministry and companies with sights set on full-spectrum EV industry development
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